IF+IT+FITS

(Lola Aneke)

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 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">IF IT FITS **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">is a reading strategy that can be used to remember new vocabulary.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read the text around the unknown word to see if you can figure out what it means. This is called using context clues. (If you are perspicacious, your keen sense of detail may help you find the meaning from context clues).
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you can't figure out the meaning from the context clues, see if the word is in the glossary at the back of the book.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you can't find it in the glossary, look it up in the dictionary (perspicacious - able to understand or perceive keenly).
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you still can't understand the definition, ask your teacher to explain it.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write the word on the front of a note card.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Say the definition to yourself.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write the definition on the back of the note card.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Associate a key word with the word you are trying to learn.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The key word should sound like or look like a word you already know (e.g., perspicacious looks like the word perspective).
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Think of an interaction between the word you are trying to remember and the key word. (A perspicacious person has a keen perception).
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Try to picture the interaction in your mind. (picture the statue of the thinker as a perspicacious person who has a keen perspective).
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Think of the key word.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Then, say the definition of the word aloud.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Study your note cards with unfamiliar words.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Close your eyes and test yourself. Read the word and then try to recall the definition on the back. Then, check yourself to see if you are correct. If not, try to recall the key word and imagine the interaction between the key word and the word you are trying to remember.